cardinalate vs situation

cardinalate and situation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cardinalate	Yes	No	No	No
situation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, situation is a hypernym of cardinalate; that is, situation is a word with a broader meaning than cardinalate:

Other hypernyms of cardinalate include berth, office, place, position, post.

cardinalate (noun)	situation (noun)
the office of cardinal	a job in an organization
(Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope	physical position in relation to the surroundings
	the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
	a condition or position in which you find yourself
	a complex or critical or unusual difficulty